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How to do Out of Place Patching in ExaCC via DBAASCLI

This will be a small post on how to do Out of Place Patching for your database in an ExaCC environment. The documentation shows how to do it via the console, but in this example,..

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How to launch an OCI Instance with Ansible roles (always free)

Intro Today, we will conclude our “Oracle Cloud Automation” journey by deploying an instance using Ansible (roles). We will demonstrate how an Always-Free compute instance can be..

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How to enable Nested Virtualization in VirtualBox (New Feature)

Did you ever want to have labs where you could play with different hypervisors within a single virtual machine on your laptop? I know this sounds more like an INCEPTION remake..

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How to downgrade InfiniBand switch patches on Exadata

Lately I was asked to apply the Exadata Quarterly Full Stack Download Patch (QFSDP) of July 2018(Patch 28183368) on the infrastructure components of a virtualized EXADATA X6-2...

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How to create Linux Local Repository using ISO Image

Create a local repository using iso image to installation Oracle RPM. This blog will cover the local repository creation using iso image. Most environment customers are not..

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How to change SYS password on ExaCC Gen 2

Contents Pre-requisites Switch the physical standby to snapshot standby Open the PDB to be cloned in read-write mode Generate the snapshot for the PDB to be cloned Create the..

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How to change SYS password on ExaCC Gen 2

Changing Oracle Database user SYS password is quite straightforward on a normal deployment – not so much on an ExaCC Gen 2 environment. In fact, it could get really complicated..

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Google Software Development Kit (CLI for GCP) Installation and few CLI Examples

Intro Google like most of the cloud providers today, offers a simple Cloud shell solution with all required tools to connect to their platform securely using APIs. However, If you..

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Google Cloud Partner (GCP) Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Takeaways

Introduction I have been asked lately to share some prep tips after I passed the Google Cloud Partner (GCP) Associate Cloud Engineer Certification. Although there are tons of..

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Google Bare Metal in Numbers

In the previous posts, I shared my first impression and how to start using the Google Bare Metal Service (BMS). In this post, I will try to show some numbers related to the..

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